Meg Clancy

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When I was a little kid, my mom used to tell us stories about growing up on the south side of Chicago in the 1930s and 40s. I used to think “Man! I can’t believe my mom watched a guy in a horse-drawn carriage come down the street selling blocks of ice.” To me, like every kid, it seemed like my mom …

“Bacteria ferments food that we’ve eaten," explains Rebekah Gross, M.D., a gastroenterologist at the Joan H. Tisch Center for Women’s Health at NYU Langone Medical Center. "That can happen down in the colon, but some colon bacteria can make its way into the small intestine." This is called small …

We polled some of those insiders—people who know the business and work daily to evict pesticides, genetically modified organisms, animal cruelty, social injustice, and unhealthy foods from the food supply—to find out what they know about the dark side of "convenience" foods. Take note so you can …

<i>Take it from nutritionist Sarah-Jane Blackwell, RD, of Self: these eight easy dinners are diet-approved.</i><p>Registered dietitians like me have nutrition training. We complete our schooling, 1,200 supervised practice hours, and a national board examination to become certified. However, we're just like …

<i>Enjoy Europe for less now!</i><p>You know what's the best thing when you're a budget-conscious traveler? When something happens that makes your entire trip cheaper, without you having to change a single thing on your itinerary. That something, in this case, is a steep drop in the value of the euro, making …

David Copithorne takes photos of classic subjects, mountains, beaches, street scenes, and then edits them to add floating geometric shapes which reflect the images around them, or twisting them into fractals-like forms. He uses Photoshop CS6 to create his work, and says he came upon his techniques …

Scientists have discovered the genes that give bowhead whales a 200-year lifespan. But who wants to live that long?<p>In <i>The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy</i>, Marvin the robot is left outside the time machine and has to wait for millions of years while his friends travel through millennia in an …